1. Video Gaming Community A DISCOURSE COMMUNITY WITH CONTINUOUS GROWTH. Ramiro Jimenez English 330 8/14/2015

2. Community Goals

3. Mechanisms of Intercommunication  In game:  Chat Rooms  Voice Call  Video Call  Off Game:  Video Game Forums  Social Media

4. Communication Purposes  Strategies  Command team members  Keep in contact with their players  Share gaming experiences  Find the similarities between players.

5. Genre

6. LEXIS  N00b  RROD  SPAMMING  SPEEDRUN  TeaBag  ZOMG  PNED

7. Membership Diversity Gamer BeginnerCasualExperiencedExpert  First bullet point here  Second bullet point here  Third bullet point here

8. References  Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community.” Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.  McCarthy, Lucille. “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing across the Curriculum.” Research in the Teaching of English. 21.3 (1987): 233-265. Jstor. Web. 29 May 2015.  Major League Gaming. Major League Gaming, Inc, n.d. Web.  The NPC Group/Retail Tracking Service. Venture Beat. Web.